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I'm trying to upgrade a machine (Ultra 60) from Solaris 9 HW 12/03 to HW 
9/05 using CD-R copies of the Solaris 9 CD's burnt from ISO's downloaded 
from Sun and extracted out the downloaded zipfiles

The Solaris 9 1 of 2 CD-R is fine, but the second one isn't doing anything 
and I've burnt a second disk from the second ISO image to compare, and 
it's giving the same behaviour. I've tried different CD-ROM drives, also 
with the same result. Not sure what's causing the second CD to not be 
scanned, but I'm not in a position to do much more now since I start work 
at 3.30 pm (bit over half hour!).

I realise it's a risk, but I've just skipped installing the extra software off 
the second CD so I can reboot the machine and see what happens. I know of some 
problems that are pre-existing (mainly related to Perl - need to upgrade that 
to 5.8.7).

I'll have a go at upgrading the machine to Solaris 10 tonight using the set of 
4 CD-ROM's.

That aside, is there a way to get Solaris to re-try installing the 
software it needs off the second Solaris 9 CD? When I rebooted the system 
the kernel reported SCSI timeouts trying to talk to the CD-ROM drive - 
perhaps something in the ISO for the second Solaris 9 CD makes the drive 
get into an unknown state which Sun's 'glm' driver can't understand...

In any case, the machine is running but some things are broken since I 
tried to build the new version of Perl (using CPAN) and gcc's giving 
linker errors. That probably means one of the packages on the second 
Solaris 9 CD contains libraries that the linker is expecting to find. hmm

Craig.

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